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Push notification messaging with friends (WUT w/o anonymity)

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Push notification messaging with friends (WUT w/o anonymity)

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@czug_ was WUT an inspiration for Text? Where do you see it fitting in the crowded mobile messaging space?

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12yr ago

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@czug_ it's interesting you mention "businesses." Reminds me of Path Talk and its TalkTo acquisition (cc @davemorin).

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12yr ago

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@czug_ smart! Reminds me of @msg's Super.cc. What are you adding next to the app?

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12yr ago

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@czug_ riffing here: 1) "Let's hang!" Text could serve as a lightweight way to make suggestions of things to do with friends without the hassle of adding numerous people to a group text message and social burden to respond. Location-sharing could be useful, although probably unnecessary. 2) "I'll take a chicken salad with dressing on the side, please." I use TalkTo to order food for pickup, on occasion. Maybe you can partner with Fancy Hands or one of those VA companies to offer something like this and integrate with Foursquare to pull in business/location data. 3) "Xbox One or Playstation 4?" With iOS 8's interactive push notifications, you may be able to support polling from the lock screen. On a related note, what do you think about giving users the ability to SMS message people who aren't on Text through your app?

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12yr ago

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I've been a long-time WUT user. I love what @pm and team are doing but I always thought the anonymous, push notification-based app could provide more utility if it used our real identity. I've been playing with Text for a few weeks. It's early and I don't have very many friends on the service but I can see it as a useful, lightweight tool for broadcasting messages to all my friends or ad-hoc groups of people. Potential use case: "Anyone want to meetup for drinks at The Grove at 6pm?" I use several other messaging apps/communication tools like email, MessageMe, Snapchat, TapTalk, Slack, but Text is different enough that it might fit into my social rotation (if I can get enough people on it). Great work, @czug_.

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12yr ago

Ambition Today - Shahab Kaviani of CoFounders Lab, Breezio, and Hyperoffice

@rrhoover Downloading now. :)

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12yr ago

@rrhoover it's funny because if you read a book like "Hatching Twitter" you get a sense that the use case you have in mind for Text is what the co-founders of Twitter envisioned for it. Of course things changed when it took off and the community took over but interesting to think about. :)

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12yr ago

Write Together

Do we really need more of these messaging apps? Starting to feel like we're just inventing more for the sake of it now.

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12yr ago

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@ow there are soooo many messaging apps and most won't survive but I'm glad to see people continue to try something new. Communication will continue to change with technology, especially as new interfaces emerge (e.g. Google Glass, wearables).

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12yr ago

The Pitch

did you consider having the add/select friend screen also be the place to begin typing? would eliminate need for editing page and on the add/select friend screen would elim 'Text name' button and friend list could slide up as keyboard appears.

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12yr ago

Ambition Today - Shahab Kaviani of CoFounders Lab, Breezio, and Hyperoffice

I had no idea that you could message individuals or groups with this until this thread. Maybe it wast me but a quick on-boarding tutorial would be good.

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12yr ago

Ambition Today - Shahab Kaviani of CoFounders Lab, Breezio, and Hyperoffice

@czug_ I think a simple overlay would suffice. The other option is to include an option, next to the send button, to open the left nav with people listed. I didn't even know that screen was there. Then on that screen, add a little bit of verbiage around "Your Text will send to anyone you choose in this list. If you choose no one it'll go to everyone." I think that's a bit counter intuitive as well. Maybe have everyone checked by default. Then you uncheck them to send to less people?

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12yr ago

Wow searching for text. in the app store is a disaster. Someone create a product for that. Had to search under Clay Zug.

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12yr ago

Self-Quarantine Book Club

I'm excited to see someone doing this. The group messaging/broadcast usecase kind of reminds me of what drove a lot of early Twitter activity. Though it's no longer really as relevant on Twitter as audiences have scaled. Time to reinvent! :)

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